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Prato Reaction of M3N@Ih-C80 (M = Sc, Lu, Y, Gd) with Reversible Thermal Isomerization Safwan Aroua, and Yoko Yamakoshi J. Am. Chem. Soc., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/ja309550z • Publication Date (Web): 04 Dec 2012 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on December 10, 2012

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Prato Reaction of M3N@Ih-C80 (M = Sc, Lu, Y, Gd) with Reversible Isomerization Safwan Aroua and Yoko Yamakoshi* Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH-Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland. Supporting Information Placeholder ABSTRACT: The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of the az-

omethine ylide (Prato reaction) with M3N@Ih-C80 (or M3N@C80, M = Sc, Lu, Y, Gd) was carried out to obtain fulleropyrrolidine bis-carboxylic acid derivatives as scaffolds to prepare various functional M3N@C80 materials. The formation of two monoadduct isomers (called [6,6]- and [5,6]-adducts) were detected by HPLC and identified by NMR and Vis/NIR spectroscopies. In each Prato reaction with M3N@C80, the initial addition gave a [6,6]-adduct of Ih-C80 cage, and subsequently a [5,6]-adduct was obtained by complete or partial thermal isomerization via a rearrangement reaction. The reaction rate of the latter thermal conversion of the adducts were dependent on the size of the metal cluster inside C80, and interestingly in the reactions of Y3N@C80 and Gd3N@C80, this conversion was found to be reversible for the first time. Detailed kinetic studies provided enthalpy and entropy barrier in the reactions of the adducts of Lu3N@C80, Y3N@C80, and Gd3N@C80. The utility of the obtained Prato adducts was confirmed by preparation of a highly water-soluble Gd3N@C80 derivative.

The high-yielding syntheses of trimetallic nitride template-endohedral metallofullerenes1 (TNT-EMFs, M3N@Ih-C80 or M3N@C80), have stimulated the production of new potential materials for MRI contrast agents2 and solar cells.3 Our interest has been focusing on the applications of fullerenes as biomaterials taking advantages of their photosensitivity4,5 and metal encapsulation of paramagnetic metals such as Gd3+.6,7 For the production of new materials, it is important to identify useful scaffold derivatives for the preparation of devices and probes requiring watersoluble materials. In the present study, we chose the Prato reaction,8 which is widely used for chemical functionalization of C60 due to its operational simplicity and high yields, to prepare

fulleropyrrolidine bis-carboxylic acid of Gd3N@C80 with tBu protection. Simultaneously, Sc3N@C80 was subjected to the same Prato reaction in order to analyze detailed structure of adducts by NMR. The unexpected difference in regioselectivities of Sc3N@C80 and Gd3N@C80 following initial addition and subsequent thermal isomerization promoted us to conduct further experiments with Lu3N@C80 and Y3N@C80 to investigate the effects of metal clusters in the C80 cage on the reaction (Figure 1). Interestingly, we found that thermal conversions from initial kinetic [6,6]-adducts to thermodynamically stable [5,6]-ones in Gd3N@C80 and Y3N@C80 were in equilibrium in our Prato derivatives.

Figure 1. Prato reaction of M3N@Ih-C80 1a-d (M = Sc, Lu, Y, Gd) with a glycine derivative 2 and formaldehyde to provide [6,6]- and [5,6]-monoadducts (3a-d and 4ad) with bis-carboxylic acid esters. The positions/angles of the M3N inside the cage are random.

The groups of Dorn and Echegoyen intensively studied the regioselectivity of the Prato adducts of M3N@C80. In Ih-C80, there are two possible addition sites for Prato reaction; the [6,6]-junction (a bond at the border of two hexagons, adducts: 3a-d in Figure 1) and the [5,6]-junction (a bond on the border of a pentagon and a hexagon, adducts: 4a-d in Figure 1). Their initial reports showed that Sc3N@C80 provided the [5,6]-adduct, while Y3N@C80 provided the [6,6]one,9-11 and further studies indicated that the [6,6]-

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adducts were kinetic products, which subsequently converted upon heating to thermodynamically stable [5,6]-adducts.12-14 In addition, Lu and co-workers reported that [6,6]-adduct was a thermodynamic product in Prato reaction of Gd3N@C80 by HPLC analysis.15 In the present study, we subjected new glycine derivative 2 to the Prato reaction with formaldehyde to obtain fulleropyrrolidine bis-carboxylic acid derivatives 3 and 4 (Figure 1) as precursors for functional fullerene materials. Previously, carboxylic acid derivatives of M3N@C80 (M = Lu, Y, Gd) were prepared by Hirsch-Bingel reactions.11,16,17 This proved difficult with Sc3N@C80,11 but could be solved by the addition of DMF.18 In our study, we used the Prato reaction and obtained monoadducts of Sc3N@C80 by HPLC (peaks A and B in Figure 2a). The monoadduct A of Sc3N@C80, obtained as the final product,19 was purified and identified as the [5,6]adduct by NMR.20 The same reaction of Gd3N@C80, however, provided adduct B initially and slowly interconverted to A (Figure 2b). This latter thermal conversion of Gd3N@C80 adducts was much slower than with Sc3N@C80 and did not complete after >300 h (Figure 2b). The adducts A and B of Gd3N@C80 were not identified by NMR due to their paramagnetic property. ratio of isomers [%]

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80 60

The same Prato reactions were carried out on Lu3N@C80 and Y3N@C80 with medium ion sizes (Gd3+ > Y3+ > Lu3+ > Sc3+) (Figure 2c and d). The monoadducts A and B were purified and assigned as [5,6]- and [6,6]-adducts, respectively, by NMR. For instance, as shown in Figure 3, adducts of Lu3N@C80 were assigned based on two different mirror symmetries, which provided different peak patterns in both the 1H- and 13C-NMR. Based on the structural identification of the [5,6]- and [6,6]-adducts of M3N@C80 (M = Sc, Lu, Y) by NMR, two adducts of Gd3N@C80 (peaks A and B in Figure 2d) were identified to be 4b and 3b by comparing their Vis/NIR spectra with unique absorbance pattern for each adduct (Figure 4). All [6,6]-adducts have three absorbance peaks between 620–850 nm (Figure 4a) and all [5,6]-adducts have a single absorbance peak around 830–970 nm (peak tops are 970, 860, and 830 nm) (Figure 4b).11,21 Interestingly, the spectrum of the [5,6]-adduct of Sc3N@C80 was more red-shifted than those of other M3N@C80 indicating a smaller bandgap presumably due to a lower LUMO level (Table 1). The patterns of bands between 700-850 nm of [6,6]-adducts were dependent on the metal cluster size. In addition, the HPLC retention time of the [5,6]-adducts were shorter than those of the [6,6]adducts in all M3N@C80 adducts with difference related to the size of the cluster (summarized in Table 1).

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Figure 2. Generation of Prato monoadducts (A and B) of Sc3N@C80 (a), Gd3N@C80 (b), Lu3N@C80 (c), and Y3N@C80 (d) monitored by HPLC (Buckyprep, 4.6 x 250 mm, toluene, 1 mL/min, 390 nm). In each reaction, A was identified as the [5,6]-adduct and B as the [6,6]adduct by NMR and Vis/NIR analyses of isolated products (see Figures 3 and 4).

Figure 3. Structural identification of adduct B (a and c) and A (b and d) of Lu3N@C80 by NMR. Due to different mirror symmetry of C80 part of each adduct, the pyrrol-

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idine methylene protons (H and H ) appear as two singlets in the [6,6]-adduct (a) and as two doublets in the 13 [5,6]-adduct (b). In the C-NMR of the [6,6]-adduct, 3 each pyrrolidine methylene carbon and sp carbon in C80 cage appears as two separate signals (c), and in the [6,6]-adduct as one signals (d). The aromatic region in 13 C-NMR of the [6,6]-adduct showed 36 peaks of 2C and 6 peaks of 1C, while the [5,6]-adduct showed 35 peaks 2 of 2C and 8 peaks of 1C. By HMQC and HMBC, the sp 3 carbons adjacent to the sp carbons were assigned in 13 22 C-NMR.

Figure 4. Vis/NIR absorption spectra of the [6,6]- (a) and the [5,6]-adducts (b) of M3N@C80 (measured in 0.5 mg/mL in toluene and normalized as molar absorption coefficient ε). The [6,6]-adduct of Sc3N@C80 could not be isolated because conversion to the [5,6]-adduct was too rapid.

The results show – consistent to the previous studies12, 14 – that the [6,6]-adducts were observed as the initial major adduct (kinetic product) and the [5,6]-adducts as the thermodynamically more stable products. In general, the reactivity of the initial addition to the double bond of C80 is related to (1) the electron density caused by charge transfer from M3N to C80, (2) the steric effect due to the pyramidalization of C80 cage carbons by M3N cluster, and (3) the redox potentials, which are dependent on the metals of M3N. The pyramidarlzation effect on THJ (junction of three hexagons) carbon of M3N@C80 (M = Sc, Lu, Y) by metal clusters were reported by Dunsch and co-workers in dependent manner on the size23 and the geometry1,24,25,26 of M3N cluster based on the 13C-NMR chemical shift of the sp2 carbons. However in the present study, we did not see any significant difference in the reaction rate of the initial addition. Instead, large differences in the reaction rate of subsequent thermal isomerization were observed in M3N@C80 with different metal clusters. The larger the cluster size was, the slower the reaction rate was. We speculated that the larger metal cluster contributed to stabilize the [6,6]-adducts via the pyramidalization of the sp3 carbons at [6,6]-junction. Consistently, the chemical shift values of sp3 PHHJ (junction of one pentagon and two hexagons) carbon is significantly shifted to downfield in the adduct of M = Y (57.7 ppm) compared to M = Lu (53.9 ppm) (Table 1). The effect of the size of metal cluster was also investigated by Lu and co-workers by comparing

the regioselectivity of Prato reactions of Gd3N@C80 with ScxGd3-x@C80 (x = 0–3) to show that Gd3N@C80 with largest metal cluster provided the [6,6]-adduct with a good agreement to the calculated energy of the adducts.15 The time scale of isomerization step in our Prato reaction with Sc3N@C80 seems to be much faster (within 15 min at 120 ºC) compared to the other studies on N-trityl fulleropyrrolidine14,27 but slower than N-methyl or N-ethyl fulleropyrrolidine.9,10,12 More importantly, while the isomerization of Sc3N@C80 and Lu3N@C80 adducts were completed, thermal conversion of Y3N@C80 and Gd3N@C80 adducts did not complete and a certain amount of the [6,6]-adduct remained in the reaction mixture (7% and 50%,28 respectively) indicating that these isomers were in equilibrium. In order to confirm the reversible thermal conversion of the adducts of Y3N@C80 and Gd3N@C80, each purified [6,6]- or [5,6]-adduct was subjected to heating. After 4 hours of heating at 180 ºC, both reaction mixtures contained the same ratio of the [6,6]- and [5,6]-adducts as analyzed by HPLC. Figure 5 shows the results using each pure adduct of Gd3N@C80 to provide a 50:50 ratio of 3d and 4d after thermal treatment.28 This clearly confirmed that the isomerization occured in equilibrium.29 In the case of thermal conversion of pure [6,6]- or [5,6]-adduct of Y3N@C80, a 7:93 ratio of adducts 3c and 4c was obtained (Figure S31). These results indicate that the energy levels of the [5,6]- and [6,6]-adducts of Y3N@C80 or Gd3N@C80 are similar in contrast to the adducts of Sc3N@C80 and Lu3N@C80. In the previous studies, reversible isomerization of Prato adducts was not observed in M3N@C80 (M = Y12 and Gd15). We speculate that the carbonyl group may help to stabilize the high energy intermediate in our adducts. In order to estimate the activation enthalpy and entropy, the isomerization reactions were carried out at various temperatures to obtain an Eyring plot.20 As a result, the enthalpy energy barrier of isomerization ([6,6]-adduct to [5,6]-adduct) was higher in the M3N@C80 with larger cluster size (Table 1). (a)

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Figure 5. Thermal conversion of Gd3N@C80 [6,6]adduct to [5,6]-adduct (3d to 4d) (a) and [5,6]-adduct to [6,6]-adduct (4d to 3d) (b) upon heating at 180 °C for 4 h (HPLC: Buckyprep (4.6 x 250 mm), toluene, 1 28 mL/min, 390 nm). Table 1. Proprieties of M3N@C80 in Prato reaction.

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Measured by DPV experiments on a 1 mm GC disk electrode in o-DCB with 0.05 M TBAHFP, scan rate 20 mV/sec, pulse amplitude 50 mV, pulse width 50 mV. All potentials were corrected relative to ferrocene as an internal standard (V vs Fc0/+).30 bMeasured in toluene. cEstimated by HPLC peak areas at the 15 min after reaction started. dEstimated by HPLC analysis.25

The previous reports on exohedral functionalization of M3N@C80 with X-ray crystal structures showed that the sp2 carbons adjacent to the sp3 at the addition site were the most flattened in the C80 cage carbons.21,25 In the present study based on 13C NMR shift, we observed the PHHJ sp2 carbons adjunct to THJ sp3 carbon in the [6,6]-adduct were less flattened (e.g. 139 ppm in Figure 3c), which may explain the instability of the [6,6]-adducts. Further study with X-ray crystal structures of the adducts will explain more clearly on the relationship between carbon pyramidalization and the stability of the adducts. To evaluate the utility of these fulleropyrrolidine derivatives as a scaffold for further functionalization, a coupling reaction was carried out as shown in Figure 6. Deprotection of the tBu groups was successfully carried out under an acidic condition. Subsequent coupling reactions using HBTU provided PEG derivative 6, which possess high water-solubility (> 3 mM). The physical measurements of water-soluble 6 such as r1 relaxivity and photosensitivity are under investigation.

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Figure 6. Preparation of water-soluble Gd3N@C80 derivative by the addition of PEG chains. i) TFA- CHCl3 t (1:1), 18 h, 100%, ii) NH2(CH2CH2O)36CH2CH2COO Bu, HBTU, DIPEA, DMF-o-dichlorobenzene (1:1), rt, 4 d, 77%.

In summary, Prato reactions were carried out on M3N@C80 (M = Sc, Lu, Y, Gd) using new azomethine ylide provided bis-carboxylic acid derivatives. A kinetic study on the regioselective generation of adducts indicated that the initial 1,3-dipolar addition occurred on [6,6]-junction and thermally rearranged on to [5,6]-junction. When M3N@C80 (M = Y or Gd) was used, this rearrangement reaction occurred in equilibrium. It appears that the kinetic of isomerization and stability of each isomer are highly related to the size of the metal cluster inside of the C80 cage. We speculate that the difference of the reaction rate of thermal rearrangement compared to the previously reported fulleropyrrolidine derivatives of M3N@C80 is related to the bulkiness of the substitutent group connected to the N-atom and the carbonyl groups may play a key role in the stabilization of the intermediate. Further investigation by X-ray and theoretical calculations are needed to fully understand the process. ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting Information. Details of the synthesis and characterization data for all M3N@C80 compounds. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT This study was supported in part by the American Heart Association (No. 0930140N (YY)), the PRESTO program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (YY), and ETH Individual Investigator’s Research Award (YY).

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